European Union (EU)
Dr. Arnd Bauerkämper
Professor of History
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Berlin School for Comparative European History
Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Resistance against the Nazi regime
- Organizations of the Nazi dictatorship
- Warfare
- Anti-Semitism
- Policy toward Jews
- Hitler’s personality
- Broad internal and external policies of the “Third Reich”
- Relationship of political institutionalization and social anchoring of Europe
- Economic, social, and cultural interactions
- History of the EEC, EC, and EU
- Fascism in Europe (1918 - 1945)
- Dealing with National Socialism
- Fascism and collaboration in Europe after 1945
- History of the GDR
- Historical terrorism research
- History of memories of the Second World War
Dr. Tanja Börzel
Jean Monnet Chair and Director of the Center for European Integration
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Center for European Integration
Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Treaties of Rome
- EU enlargement
- European environmental policy
- Institutional structure under the Treaty of Lisbon
- EU Presidency
- “EU foreign affairs”
Dr. Christian Calliess
Professor of Law
Department of Law
Public Law, European Law
Boltzmannstr. 3, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- European law
- European politics
- Constitutional law
- Environmental law
- Environmental policy
- Human rights
Dr. Jürgen Gerhards
Professor of Sociology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Macrosociology
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Cultural similarities and differences between EU member states and candidate states
- Cultural sociology
- Public sociology
Theocharis Grigoriadis, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
School of Business & Economics
Institute for East European Studies
Economics
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
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Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Comparative economic systems
- Economic history
- Political economics
- Development assistance
Sebastian Hoppe
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Department of Political Science
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- political economy of Russia, especially economic, infrastructure and resource policies
- politics and economy in the Russian Far East
- Russian-Chinese relations
- regime dynamics and social mobilization in Russia and Ukraine
Dr. Ingo Peters
Associate Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy
Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Transatlantic relations
- EU / NATO / OSCE
- German foreign policy
- Security policy
- EU external relations
- Conflicts in Europe
- Self-determination
Dr. Thomas Risse
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- German foreign policy
- Transatlantic relations
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization and American foreign policy since the end of the Second World War
- European integration
- Europe and Russia
- America and Europe
- Current issues in European politics
- EU Presidency
- “EU foreign affairs”
- International relations in light of the Geneva Convention and UN Human Rights Declaration
- Fragile states
- Governance export
Dr. Thomas Rixen
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
International and Comparative Political Economy
Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Areas of Expertise
- Political economy
- Globalization
- International tax policy
- Financial markets
- Tax havens
- Tax competition
- Inequality
- Regulation
Dr. Max Steinhardt
Professor of Economics
John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies
Department of Economics
Lansstraße 7-9, 14195 Berlin
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Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Economics of the labor market
- Political economics
- Economics of migration
- Integration and migration
- U.S. economic policy
Dr. Sabine von Oppeln
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- European Union
- German and French European policy
- German-French relations
- Comparative politics in France and Germany
Dr. Michael Zürn
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
c/o Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)
Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Global governance
- G8/G20 Summit
- EU treaties
- International organizations
- International legalization and international rule of law
- Rising powers / BRIC and ISA
- War and new forms of violence
- Peace
- Humanitarian intervention
- Transnational social movements
- NGOs
- Protest / resistance
- Ruling authority in an international system